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I have examined this paperweight much more closely and I thought it might be useful if I described what I found.

At first I thought it was filled with simple canes but on closer inspection it is more complex. Need to get better specs!

The central cane is composed of yellow internal cog then a space and then in the centre there is another white/pink cane with 7 tiny canes then another central cane with four even tinier canes with a yellow central cane.

7 Blue canes with internal cog/daisy and then central cane with purple outer then white inner cog/daisy and orange centre.

16 yellow canes have a cane in the centre of the yellow external daisy/cog with 3 rings.

The outer ring is fairly easy to see on the picture.

The colour is quite blue and the base is polished smooth with wear around the pontil.

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We took the weight up for Willie Manson's opinion and he felt that the canes were Paul Ysart and not Vasart, said he recognised the yellow ones in particular. The other two we showed him are definitely Vasart according to him, which what was what we thought anyway.

Bought some more of his own weights can't resist!

Hopefully Kev H will be up and running soon and he can give his opinion on this one as well. We would value it as well.

Carol

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We took the weight up for Willie Manson's opinion and he felt that the canes were Paul Ysart and not Vasart, said he recognised the yellow ones in particular. The other two we showed him are definitely Vasart according to him, which what was what we thought anyway.

Bought some more of his own weights can't resist!

Hopefully Kev H will be up and running soon and he can give his opinion on this one as well. We would value it as well.

I am having a break from the XP upgrade and using the parts I have already got up and running. Unfortunately, my main reference images are still on the "old" computer so it's not easy to check for details and to illustrate what I might find.

But ... in my web pages (see my profile) are cane tables for Signed Paul Ysart weghts and for early Vasart (Ysart Brothers period). From detailed links out of those, the following examples may help to settle the matter:

http://www.btinternet.com/~kevh.glass/pages/paul-ysart/signed/Detail018.htmThat shows a Paul Ysart weight, from the 1970s, which has canes of somewhat variable quality and some of which are very much like ones he used from the 1930s onwards. One is a Yellow-White Cog construct and another is a Green-White-Yellow construct, both being broadly similar to the Yellow Cog compex cane in the queried piece.

I have the greatest respect for Willie Manson but in this instance I feel he is incorrect.

Although I do not have an example of the actual Yellow Cog cane from the queried weight, I think it is clear from my Paul Ysart example listed above, that it is easy to confuse "lesser quality" Paul Ysart canes with "regular" early Vasart.

And that point leads into even more confusion ... were "inner daisy" canes used by Salvdor in paperweights in the 1930s? So far, I have found absolutely no evidence to prove this, but I am keeping an open mind.

Finally, about the base - the description of "polished smooth with wear around the pontil" really needs more clarification, and preferably a good photo image. Often, early Vasart weights are ground in quiite a rough manner but I do have examples with varying grades of finish and some are very tidy indeed. But they all differ in detail from the equivalent base finishes of any of my Paul Ysart weights.

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